Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-05-15
NOTES.
GAINESVILLE leads the race.

Columbus has reason TO feel highly elated
over her three straight victories.
The GAINESVILLE press is complaining of
the small attendance at the games III that
city.
As the days 20 by the conviction is be-
coming general that the race for the League
championship is going TO be very close.
The Wheeling team madea good impress
sion and the popular verdict is that the
boys can play ball, even if they did lose.
4 queer thing is the scores in the BOs-
tOn-Philadelphia series. The winning club
generally administers a crushing defeat.
The Washingtons are showing that the
confidence placed in them by the ball
patrons of the Capital has not been abused.
O'Brien received high praise for his UNI
piring in the GAINESVILLE. SteubenVille game.
This is but an Endorsement of the opinion
OF the Wheeling public.
Who would have ''thunk" it? Column
bus has at last got down To playing form,
They will make all of them scratch gravel
before lOng.-ZdReSriHc Recorder.
The Wheeling club has 4 NichOl, who,
like his sawed-off namesake, isquitea base
runner and fredericksburg Referee.
Right you are, Sammy is hard to beat.
Akron is greatly strengthened by the &C
quisition of Fitzgerald, the pitcher who
dOwned Kalamazoo. Wheeling will try
! hard to win once more in tO-mOrrOw's
game.
The Wheeling clubs green stockings
have already poisoned the foot of one of its
players and he will he laid up for two
weeks. 1t costs money to be picturesque.
-PiHsJarg Referee.
The employees of the ElsOn and Union
glass works of Martins Ferry played a
close game yesterday, ten innings being
necessary to decide the contest. The score
ut the close stood 30 to % in favor OF the
Unions.
English, manager of the Wheeling club,
blamcs n portion of yesterdays defeat on
the umpire. The O'CrOgans can't expect
to win all the games.-StcubenrjH HcrdId.
The Wheeling team don't play Steubcnvllle
every day.
81 fine you two dollars" said Umpire
! Simmons as soon ~ Moflat began TO ques-
ton a decision at third base. That is the
kind of an umpire to have; none of your
Notwithstanding don't care Deegan
work with him.-COiUmJuS Dispatch.
There is some talk of doing away with
the -four strike rule and, also, the childish
system of giving the striker n base-hlt on
a base on balls, by the American ASsocia-
ton. 1t is pretty hard on a pitcher to
strike out n man under last years rules,
and then have him land the ball over the
fence for a hOme-run.
The members of the South Side Singing
Society and those Of the Windsor Athletic
| Club, OF the Eighth ward, played 4 match
game OF ball on the Eighth ward grounds
Yesterday, which resulted in n victory for
the former by n score OF 40 to %. Smith
Butler umpired the game.
Anson says he doesn't know an official
scorer in the country. but he does know
that they beat him out of the honor of
leading all League batSmen last season.
This will he news to the base ball reading
public. We were under the impression that
Mike Kelly was the individual who de-
privcd him of that honor.
A pointer for the Wheeling manage
ment:-
Said Harry Wright the other day: cam
| discouraged? Not a hit. | wouldn't
want to manage n team that could win
right along. Then l would have no chance
to work. What | like is to build mp a
club. otherwise ! would have stayed with
Providence. ! told them when ! left that
they would win the championship that
season, and they did"
A great game is on the taps for the neal
future between the city and county Off
Gals. The game will be called at $50 n,
IN, and will continue day by day until
nine innings are completed. Single ticket.
will he sold at p cents, or season tickets,
emitting the holder to be present every
day during the contest, will be placed a
the low figure of $50. The batteries viii
be He'll and Dunaway for the City anG
Waddle and Wa ton for the County. A ter
rife slugging match may be expected anC
the score will be counted in the hundreds